Timeline of diving technology

The timeline of underwater diving technology is a chronological list of notable events in the history of the development of underwater diving equipment.

With the partial exception of breath-hold diving, the development of underwater diving capacity, scope, and popularity, has been closely linked to available technology, and the physiological constraints of the underwater environment.

Primary constraints are: According to different sources, the term "The Bends" for decompression sickness was coined by workers of either the Brooklyn or the Eads bridge, and was given because afflicted individuals characteristically arched their backs in a manner similar to a then-fashionable posture known as the Grecian Bend.

[63] There are other diving history chronologies at:

Diving set by Rouquayrol and Denayrouze with barrel-shaped air tank on the diver's back, depicted here in its surface-supplied configuration.
The oceanographer and biologist Emil Racoviță , here equipped with a standard diving dress . An underwater photograph taken by Louis Boutan ( Banyuls-sur-Mer , south of France, 1899).
Norwegian diving pioneer Odd Henrik Johnsen with 1960's diving equipment.